[Python-ideas] [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2014 22:26, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 12:57:06 +1000
>> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Guido has asked them to have that discussion and summarise their
>>> conclusions in the PEP - we can lob our armchair opinions into the mix
>>> after the experts have spoken.
>>
>> Debunking armchair opinions is one of the points of the PEP process :-)
>
> Aye, but at the moment it makes sense to wait and see if there is even
> an argument to be had - Nathaniel may decide that even after reviewing
> the question seriously, he doesn't want to propose a right associative
> operator :)

And indeed, that does seem to be the way things have worked out :-).
  http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2014-April/069834.html

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Nathaniel J. Smith
Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh
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